Friday, January 14, 2011

Freedom Wanes

Stand by for one of the saddest quotes you will read this year. It comes from an AFP article via Breitbart:
Global freedom declined for a fifth straight year in 2010. (snip) The Washington-based Freedom House said it had documented the longest continuous period of decline since it began compiling the annual index nearly 40 years ago.
If that isn't a warning to stay vigilant, I've never seen one. A substantial part of this freedom decline is in Latin America, a place where this tendency has a sad history.